Distributed Floating-Gate Amplifier (DFGA)
Abstract
The report examines a charge detection device which directly amplifies the signal charge in a charge-coupled-device (CCD) channel. The device is based on the principle that the signal charge in a CCD channel is non-destructively sensed by a floating-gate electrode. By repeated sensing of the same signal charge, the signal-to-noise power ratio can be increased by a factor equal to the number of times it is detected.
- Publication:
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Final Report
- Pub Date:
- October 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974fsds.rept......
- Keywords:
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- Charge Coupled Devices;
- Distributed Amplifiers;
- Semiconductor Devices;
- Charge Distribution;
- Charge Transfer;
- Electrodes;
- Gates (Circuits);
- Signal To Noise Ratios;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering